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...deregulation in the early 1980s, it seems that almost everyone with a hankering to start an airline is suddenly preparing for takeoff. Despite an industrywide slump and record losses of $8 billion since 1990, some 15 passenger airlines have begun flying in the past year alone. They range from Reno Air, a full-service carrier based in Nevada that regales its passengers with California Chardonnays and fancy food baskets, to Morris Air, a low- budget, no-frills outfit started by former Salt Lake City, Utah, travel agent June Morris, the first female founder of an airline. Other newcomers include Kiwi...
...million new can now be bought or leased for about $2 million a plane. And with so many out-of-work pilots eager to fly, the new carriers have been able to recruit flight crews for less than half the top union scale of $150,000 a year. Says Reno Air president Jeff Erickson: "This is the perfect time for a start...
...start-ups have already received more protection from Clinton Democrats than they received in the entire deregulated Republican 1980s. When Reno Air cried foul after Northwest Airlines tried to squeeze the smaller carrier out of the Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle markets last March, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena pressured the bigger carrier to withdraw under the threat of antitrust action...
...block, they look like the sources of gridlock, not activity. Their tepid efforts to devise an alternative package weren't promoted early enough or publicized hard enough. Smaller Republican efforts to play up the White House "Travelgate" scandalette are likely to be both ineffective and counterproductive. Attorney General Janet Reno, who was bypassed in the White House use of a few FBI agents, doesn't seem particularly distressed. And if representatives and senators think every case of political cronyism ought to be investigated, they're not naive--they're hypocritical...
...thereby increasing his pension income $5,000 a year. Sessions told Justice officials he would resign once his successor is confirmed by the Senate, a move that would deny his nemesis Clarke a shot at being interim director. In an interview with TIME last Friday, Reno was poker-faced on Sessions even as other members of the Administration were growing weary of trying to persuade him to leave. "I am not negotiating," Reno said. But does she expect a resolution soon? "Yes," she added...